Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program, Implementation ...

134generated a payment to an EN generated a payment in a given month. In the monthsshortly after assignment, Tickets were more likely to generate a payment, but the likelihoodof payment 18 months after assignment was relatively low. This trend suggests that, of theTickets generating any payment at all within two years, most do so only in a few months, andthe number of Tickets that consistently generates payments in several months is likely to besmall.Table VIII.1. Milestone-Outcome Beneficiary Payment Profile—Types of PaymentsGenerated by Tickets Assigned in the First Year Following TTW RolloutDI/ConcurrentSSI-OnlyNumber Percent Number PercentTickets assigned a 1,459 694Tickets generating any payment in months 0–11 229 15.7 71 10.2Types of payments generated by each Ticketthat generates any payment in months 0–11Only milestones 153 66.8 21 29.6At least one outcome 76 33.2 50 70.4Tickets generating any paymentin months 12–23 128 8.8 32 4.6Types of payments generated by each Ticketthat generates any payment in months 12–23Only milestones 48 37.5 3 9.4At least one outcome 80 62.5 29 90.6Tickets generating any payment in months 0–23 17.2 10.7a Payment data on all Tickets assigned to ENs in first year of TTW operations.Thus, the average revenue that ENs received from assigned Tickets was small duringthe first two years following assignment. For DI beneficiaries in the cohort that assignedtheir Tickets during the first year of TTW, we estimate that ENs generated payments worthan average of just $352 per Ticket ($214 in the first year and $138 in the second year). 8 SSIpayments are smaller so the revenue flow for SSI-only beneficiaries was smaller, even thoughthese beneficiaries tended to generate more payments. We estimate that ENs generated anaverage of just $127 per SSI-only Ticket accepted ($83 in the first year and $44 in the secondyear).8 Ticket revenue is discounted to the date of Ticket assignment at 4 percent per year, the prime interestrate in effect in January 2004.VIII: EN Cost and Revenue